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Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

Posted by Zonk on from the shush dept.

Lucre Lucifer writes "The top climate scientist at NASA, James E. Hansen, says that the Bush Administration tried to silence him(NY Times) after he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. In the talk, he said that significant emission cuts could be achieved with existing technologies, particularly in the case of motor vehicles, and that without leadership by the United States, climate change would eventually leave the earth 'a different planet.' The administration's policy is to use voluntary measures to slow, but not reverse, the growth of emissions."

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  1. Srtif Opts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tisrf Ptso!

  2. FROST PISS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST!!

  3. Insightful??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You and the moderators are showing through your Bush Derangement Syndrome. True or not??!! So what you are saying is that you'll believe anything you read just because it agrees with your hatred for Bush.

    Any tard still going on with the Bush and oil theory is in serious need of therapy.

    This flimsy story shows everybody's true colors, including the NY Times.

  4. The Three Dolphins Club aka Sex in Space by TheMermaidSiren · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anybody ever heard of this club? I guess it's the space version of the "mile high club." I'm reading "Ask the Astronomer" and it was in there. I know that this doesn't have much to do with the original topic posted, but I'm curious.

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    Being crazy has its perks.
    1. Re:The Three Dolphins Club aka Sex in Space by Pig+Hogger · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Anybody ever heard of this club? I guess it's the space version of the "mile high club." I'm reading "Ask the Astronomer" and it was in there.
      Well, if it can satisfy your curiosity, you may like to hear that some years ago, the US astronaut wives in Houston went on strike.

      What for? To make sure that french-canadian astronaut Julie Payette does not go in Space.

      This hot bitch screwed her way all the way up the Canadian Space Agency hierarchy, and the astronaut wives sur did not want their husbands to screw with that hot bitch in space.

      So, Julie Payette was grounded by NASA management, and it took a personal phone call to Bill Clinton from canadian prime minister Jean Chrétin to restore her flight status: "she's a woman, she's french, so she has to go up, sacrament!". Of course, screwing in space was definitely something that Clinton would not feel uninterested about, so he made sure that the little slut could fly up there, where she undoubtely screwed with some ass-tro-nuts.

      The source? The sister-in-law of another canadian astro-nut.

  5. Re:Open and Shut by sco08y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Us Americans have such a short term memory.

    If you drop "Americans" from your sentence, it reads:

    "Us have such a short term memory."

    So it should be "We Americans..."